Chapters 4, 5, and 8

Question 0

A carbon atom is most likely to form what kind of bond (s) with other atoms?

Answer 0

Covalent

Question 1

The element present in all organic molecules

Answer 1

Carbon

Question 2

Research indicates that ibuprofen, a drug used to relieve inflammation and pain, is a mixture of two enantiomers; that is molecules that what?

Answer 2

Are mirror images of one another

Question 3

Which two functional groups are always found in amino acids?

Answer 3

carboxyl and amino

Question 4

Molecules with which functional groups may form polymers via dehydration reactions?

Answer 4

Either hydroxyl or carboxyl groups

Question 5

These are polymers

Answer 5

Starch, cellulose, chitin, DNA

Question 6

How many water molecules of water are needed to completely hydrolyze a polymer that is 11 monomers long?

Answer 6

10

Question 7

Relationship between dehydration reactions and hydrolysis

Answer 7

Dehydration reactions assemble polymers, and hydrolysis reactions break down polymers

Question 8

Humans can digest starch but not cellulose because

Answer 8

Humans have enzymes that can hydrolyze the alpha glycosidic linkages of starch but not the beta glycosidic linkages of cellulose

Question 9

Bonds created during the formation of the primary structure of a protein

Answer 9

Peptide bonds

Question 10

The tertiary structure of a protein is the

Answer 10

Unique 3D shape of the fully folded polypeptide

Question 11

Nucleotides

Answer 11

Class of molecules that has a nitrogenous base, a phosphate group, and a pentode sugar.

Question 12

The cellular process of breaking down large molecules into smaller ones

Answer 12

Catabolism